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Sailing o f
the Mayflower
Juat In th« Bray ot the dawn, aa the
m lata uprose front th« meadowa,
There waa a aUr and a round In the
slumbering village of Plymouth;
Clanging and clicking of nrtna, and
the order Imperntlvo, "Forw ardI"
Olven In ton« auppreaaed. a tramp of
foot, and than alienee.
Fleur«« ten. In the m lat marched
«lowly out of the village
Blandish the atalwart It waa, with
eight of hla valorous army,
Lard by their Indian guide, by Hobo-
wok. friend of the white men.
Northward marching to quell the aud-
den revolt of the eavag«
Olanta they «««med In the mlat, or the
mighty men of King David;
Olanta In heart they were, who be­
lieved In Ood and the Bible,—
Aye, who believed In the cmltlng of
Mldlanltee and Pblltallnea.
and beckoning over the ocean.
Turning a r t toaalng about In the heat
There Is another hand, that is not so
and unreel of hie (ever.
spectral and ghost-llke.
><• bad beheld * Mile» Standish, who
cam« back late from the council, Holding me. drawing me back, and
clasping mine for protection.
Btalklug Into th« room, aud heard him
Float. O band of cloud, and vanish
m utter and murmur,
away In ths ether!
Hometlmea it »earned a prayer, and
aometlm«» it sounded like «wear­ Roll thyself up like a flat, to threaten
and daunt me; I heed not
ing
Once he had com« to the bed, and Either your warning or menace, or
any omen of evil!
stood there a moment In allenes;
Then he had turned away, and said: There Is no land so sacred, no air so
purs and so wholesome,
"I w ill not wake him ;
Let him sleep on. It 1» best; for what As Is the air she breathes, and the
soil that Is pressed by bar foot­
Is the use of more talking!**
steps.
Than ha extinguished the light, and
threw himself down on hlsvpallet, Here for her sake will I stay, and like
an Invisible presence
Dressed as be was, and ready to start
Hover around her for ever, protecting,
at th« br«»k of th« morning,—
supporting her weakness;
Covered himself with the cloak he
had worn In his campaigns In Yee! as my foot was the flret that
stepped on this rock at the land­
I
Flanders,—
Slept a« a soldier sleeps In bis
ing.
So, with the blessing of Ood, shall It
bivouac, ready for action.
be the last at the leaving!"
Rut with the dawn he arose; In the
tw ilight Alden beheld him
Meanwhile the Master alert, but
Put on his corselet of steel, and all
with dignified air and Important,
the rest«of bis armor.
Ruckle about bis waist bis trusty Scanning with watchful eye the Ode
and the wind and the weather.
blade of Damaecus,
Take from the comer his musket, and Walked about on the aanda; and the
people crowded around him
so stride out of the chamber.
Often the heart of the youth had
burned and yearned to embrace
him.
Often his lips had eeeayed to speak.
Imploring for pardon;
All the old friendship came back,
with Its tender and grateful emo­
tions;
But his pride overmastered the nobler
nature wlibln him,— ,
Pride, and tb» sense of his wrong,
and the burning fire of the tneult.
So he beheld his friend departing In
anger, but spake not.
Raw him go forth to danger, perbspe
to death, and be spake notl
Then be arose from hie bed. and
beard what the people were say­
ing.
Joined In the talk at the door, with
Stephen and Richard and Oilbert,
Joined In the morning prayer, and In
the reading of Scripture,
And, with the others, m haste went
hurrying down to the sea shore.
Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had
bVen to their feet as a doorstep
Into a world unknown.— the corner­
stone oi a nation!
Take Hie Muaket, and So Stride Out.
Over them gleamed far off the crim­
son banners of morning;
Under them loud on the sands, the
serried billows, advancing.
Fired along the line and In regular
order retreated.
Many a mile bad they marched,
when at length the village of Ply
mouth
Woke from Its sleep, and arose, in­
tent on Its manifold labor«.
Sweet was the air and soft; and alow
ly the smoke from the chimneys
Rose over roofs of thatch, and point­
ed steadily eastward;
Men came forth from the doora, and
paused and talked of the weather,
Said that the wind had changed, and
waa blowing fair for the May
flower;
Talked of their Captain’s departure,
and all the dangers that menaced
H e being gone, the town, and whal
should be done in hla absence.
M errily sang the birds, and the ten
der voices of women
Consecrated with hymns the common
cures of the household. .
Out of the sea rose tho sun, and the
billows rejoiced at hla coming;
Beautiful were his feet on the pur­
ple tops of the mountains;
Beautiful on the sails of the May»
flower riding at anchor.
Battered and blackened and worn by
all tho storms of the winter.
Loosely against hor masts was hang­
ing and flapping her canvas,
Rent by so many gales, and patched
by the hands of the sailors.
Suddenly from her side, as the sun
.rose over the ocean.
Darted a puff of smoke, and floated
Beaward; anon rang
Loud over field and forest ths can­
non's roar, and the echoes
Heard and repeated the sound, ths sig­
nal gun of departure!
Ah! but with louder echoes replied
the hearts of the people!
Meekly, In voices subdued, the chap­
ter waa read from the Bible,
M eekly the prayer waa begun, but
ended In fervent entreaty!
Then from their houses In haste came
forth the Pilgrims of Plymouth,
Men and women and child -en, all hur­
rying down to the sea shore,
Eager, with tearful eye«, to say fare­
well to the Mayflower,
Homeward bound o’er the sea and
leaving them here In the desert.
There with hla boat waa the Master,
already a little impatient
beet he should lose the tide, or the
wind might shift to the eastward.
Square-built, hearty, and strong, with
an odor of ocean about him.
Speaking with this one and that, and
cramming letters and parcels
Into his pockets capacious, and mee-
aages mingled together
Into his narrow brain, till at last be
waa wholly bewildered
Nearer the boat stood Alden, with oue
placed
One still flniFoi.'
flrnPot the rock, and talking
at times with the sailors.
Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready
and eager for starting.
He, too, was eager to go, and thus
put an end to bis anguish,
Thinking to fly from despair, that
sw ifter than keel Is or canvas.
Thinking to drown In the sea the
ghost that would rise and pursue
him.
But as he gated on the crowd, he be­
held the form of Priscilla
Standing dejected among them, uncon­
scious of all that was passing.
Fixed were her eyes upon h i t , aa if
she divined his Intention,
Fixed with a look so sad, so reproach­
ful, Imploring and patient,
That with a sudden revulsion his
heart recoiled from Its purpose.
Aa fnom the verge of a crag, where
one step more Is destruction.
Strange is the heart of man, with Its
quick, mysterious instincts!
Standing Dejeoted, Unconsoloue of All.
Strange Is the life of man, and fatal
or fated are moments,
Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the
gates of the wall adamantine 1
'Here 1 rem ain!” he exclaimed, aa ha
looked at the heavens above him.
Thanking the Lord whose breath had
scattered the mist and the mad­
ness.
Wherein, blind and lost, to death he
was staggering headlong.
Foremost among them was Alden. "Yonaer snow-white cloud, that floats
In the ether above me,
A ll night he had lain without
Seems like a hand that Is pointing
slumber,
IRON WILL MAY FAIL
ORKAT LEADER O flTfl H lfl W AV
* BY O TH ER M ETHODS.
Followers Must Be Shown That They
All Osin Moat by Yielding Im­
plicit Ohedlenoe to the Con­
ductor's Orders.
sells mames of oeidbeats
New Yorker Devices Schama fo r 7 - r w
At of Dlahoneat talaam on Who
W o rk on Commitoton.
Tbero are tricks In all trades— end
some t redos are all tricks. 1'vs just
hoard of a brand now schema for tak­
ing money out of pockets, the New
York correspondent ot the Cincinnati
Ttmes-Star writes. It Is so essentially
New York In device—so tbrobblngly
metropolitan In Its chicanery—that It
Is worth a paragraph. Its manipula­
tor sells lists pt worthless names to
cheating salesmen who work on com­
mission. "Every now and then a guy
blows In hers who wants to make
some quick money," be explains. "He
gets a job selling something on com­
mission. It doesn't matter w bxhsr
It s books or automobiles. What does
matter Is that be gets a percentage
of his pay when the signature of the
purchaser Is con Armed by the latter.
So Mr. Salesman comes to me. 1 have
a list of 1,000 names hers. Tbs pos­
sessor of every name Is a man of good
outward appearance, every one will
sign anything offered to him. and
every one Is so judgment proof that
the supreme court Itself couldn't get
a nickel out of him with a thumb
screw. 1 give my salesman friend two
name«—«elected at random from the
Hat—a a a sample package. He goes
forth, breaks Into their offices, alaps
down his prospectus and puts up a
tittle game of talk. 'Sure,' say» the
other fellow. ‘I ’ll subscribe. What
is i t r
"The salesman, convinced that I
have a good thing, then buys other
names from me. I never let the same
man have more than ten or fifteen, or
he'd soon have my list and ruin me
in the markeL Anyhow, he doeen’t
want more than that many. By the
time he's collected an advance com­
mission on their signatures he’s ready
to leave. The men who sign these
contracts never refuse to confirm their
signatures when
the tracer goes
around. They always accept delivery
of the goods— and they never pay
Sometimes the manufacturer gets bis
goods back, and sometimes be doesn’L
And a good part of these men are
known to every one in the city by
name. One very prominent manufac­
turer la on my lis t Hls name la
known from the Atlantic to the Pa­
cific. And a lawyer, whose name has
been on the front page of every paper
In the United States at some time
within the last two years, ts another.
And there are o *\ers of almost equal
standing. 1 wouldn’t take $50,000 for
that list of dead beats 1 am making
ten per cent annual Interest on that
sum from IL"
They tall us an Iron w ill la a very
One thing. A great general rule« his
forces by his will. A parliamentary
leader drives recalcitrant members In­
to the right lobby by his will. If be has
IL Napoleon, they say, controlled all
France by his will. 1 have long had
doubts.
Napoleon never bad to get an obsti­
nate donkey out of the way of an ex­
press train, for there wars no express
trains, but bad the task confronted
him I doubt whether the Iron will that
conquered France would have moved
the donkey. Nay, I do not doubt; I am
certain It would n o t And since men
are a great deal more stupid and more
obstinate than donkeys I am sura It
was not by an Iron will alone that Na­
poleon ruled the French.
The Iron will only served to rule
himself to keep him hard and Inces­
santly at the working out of bis great
Idea, the Idea of convincing men that
be was the ablest among them, that
by following him they did best for
themselves. A political boss does the
same; there I t no Iron will Involved;
merely he shows his followers that
they all gain by going with him.
And the same rule bolds true In the
case of band conductors. A m ilitary
conductor can get bis way because the
men under him are punished unless
they obey him; an opera or concert
conductor may get his way because he
can throw out of employment the men
who do not obey him.
But the true born conductor, either
military or civil, gets his way and
floe results when his bandsmen know
that by paying close attention to him
and putting their backs Into their
work they help to secure perform-
ances of which they may all justly
feel proud.
When Nlklsch first came here many
; years ago we were told how on the
continent he was wont to magnetite
his men and make them Insensibly
yield to his will. It is likely enough
they did yield; they would have been
dismissed If they had not; but the
How Good You Hove Boon to Me.
magnetism did not In the leeat work
Saying a few last words, and enforo In England. The men simply paid no
attention to it; there might as well
tng hls careful remembrance.
Then, taking etch by the hand, as If nave been no magnetism at all; *twas
In vain Nlklsch essayed to fix them
he were grasping a tiller.
Into the boat he sprang, and In haste with the glittering eye of which we
bad read so much; too much; the In­
shoved off to hls vessel.
Glad In hls heart to get rid of all this human rascals refused to be fixed; the
performances were poor and some one
worry and flurry.
Glad to be gone from a land of sand must havezlost a fa ir sum of money
over the concerts.
and sickness and sorrow,
See what happened when Nlklsch
Short allowance of victuals and plenty
returned not as master but as servant
of nothing but Gospel!
Lost In the sound of the oars was the of the orchestra. The Symphony or­
chestra engaged him; the glittering
last farewell of the Pilgrims.
O strong hearts and true! not o n « '«7« nonsense and the iron w ill non-
went back In the Mayflower!
I sense were dropped, and at once artls-
No, not one looked back, who had set Uc results were got One might dlaap-
prove of many things he did, and espe­
hls hand to this plowing!
cially oi hls affected readings, but be
gained the effects he wanted, and
Boon were heard on board the
gained them In a legitimate manner,
shouts and songs of the sailors
through the faith the men had In him.
Heaving the windlass rouDd. and
—John F. Runclman, In the London
hoisting the ponderous anchor.
Saturday Review.
Then the yards were braced, and all
sails set to the west wind.
Who Owns Shetland Islands?
Blowing steady and strong; and the
It Is not perhana generally known
Mayflower sailed from the harbor,
Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and that an opinion expressed half humor­
ously, by Lord Salvesen at the open­
leaving far to the southward
Island and cape of sand, and the Field ing of the Norse Gallery In the Scot­
tish exhibition In Glasgow with re­
of the First Encounter.
Took the wind on her quarter, and gard to the ownership of the Orkney
and Shetland Islands Is fortified by
stood for the open Atlantic.
Hls lordship,
Borne on the send of the sea, and the very high authority.
speaking as a lawyer” Is not sure
swelling hearts of the Pilgrims.
whether the Islands do not belong to
Long In silence they watched the re­ Norway still, and thinks that legally
the crown of Norway, If prepared to
ceding saU of the vessel.
Much endeared to them all, aa some­ pay the money for which they were
pledged, with Interest "for throe hun­
thing living and human;
Then, as If filled with the spirit, and dred years." would be entitled to re­
deem them. As a matter of fact, pleni­
rapt In a vision prophetic,
Baring hls hoary head, the excellent potentiaries assembled at Breda In
1665 (a couple of centuries after the
Elder of Plymouth
Said, "Let us pray!" and they prayed Islands had come Into the possession
and thanked the Lord and took of the Scottish crown) decided not
only that the right of redemption had
courage.
Mournfully sobbed the waves at the not then been barred by the lapse of
base of the rock, and above them time, but that It was Imprescrtbable.
Bowed and whispered. the wheat on The Islandr were pledged In 1468, • x
the hill of death, and their kin that In.erest Is due for nearly four
and a naif centuries.
dred
Seemed to awake In their graves, and
to Join in the prayer that they ut­
Dog That Guarded a Cat.
tered.
When my dog was a puppy I got a
Sun-Illumed and white, on the east little kitten to keep' him company.
ern verge of the ocean
They got to be good friends, but as
Gleamed the departing sail, like a they got older the cat seemed to think
marble slab In a graveyard;
she could take care of herself.
Burled beteath It lay far ever all hope
When the cat climbed a tree It
seemed to puzzle the dog, and he
of escaping.
Lol as they turned to depart, they would stand below the tree and look
saw the form of an Indian,
up at the cat and then at me, as If
Watching-» them from the h ill; but trying to understand how the cat
while they spake with each other. could get up Into the tree while he
Pointing with outstretched hands, and had to stay on the ground.
flaying, ''Look!'' he had vanished.
When evening came the dog would
So they returned to their homes; but hunt up the cat and carry her to the
kennel where they slept at night. The
Alden lingered a little.
Musing alone on the Bhore, and dog kept one of hls forelegs over the
watching the wash of the billows cat. and there she had to stay until
Round the base of the rock, and the morning. At last the cat was killed,
sparkle and flash . of the sun­ but I have the dog yet.— Fur News.
shine,
Like the spirit of Ood, moving visibly
Latter for 280 Years Undelivered.
over the waters.
A tetter written In December, 1660.
(TO B E CO NTINUED.)
to a prominent member of the Body
of Friends In Durham. England, has
Height of Fame.
“And how Is your son Henry get­ Just been found In the Public Record
ting on In literature V asked the visi­ office, having been undelivered. A
copy of the letter has been forwarded
tor.
“Oh, he’s doing famously," said ths to the descendants In the eighth gen
proud
mother.
"Hls
autograph eratlon of those for whom It was In­
tended. The letter Is addressed: "For
brought $10 the other day.'
my Loving friend Richard Hickson, a
"Really r
"Yes— signed to a promissory note butcher In Durham, to bee delivered
paid
for three hundred
I bought It my­ to W illiam Bywaters, Durhan
self.”— Harper's Weekly.
9d.”
Still Wanted That Steer.
“The funniest thing that BUI Nye—
my brother— ever said," declared Rep­
resentative Frank Nye of Minnesota,
was about a steer that ran away from
him. Bill and I were boys when our
parents moved to the wesv We
worked on father's farm. Bill got to­
gether enough money to buy a little
steer, which he Intended to break to
harness and work. Several days after
we got the steer home he disappeared
and we never saw him again. We
spent one entire day In the mountains
bunting for him. That night, and it
was otter midnight when we got
home, mother was In the road crying,
thinking that we were lost We had
been lost and were hungry, tired and
footsore. Twenty-live years later,
when BUI was launching on hls news­
paper career, I received a letter from
him. He was on hls way to Europe.
He told me that he had been offered a
trip around the world by a big dally
paper and thought be would accept
IL 'For one particular reason 1 think
I wUl take It,’ he wrote, ‘and that Is
to see If I can't find that damned old
steer.'"
+ THE -!-
SCDAP
BOOK
W ild S ilk w o rm s .
The world Is Indebted to the Chi­
nese for the discovery of the virtue«
of the silkworm. Its product was un­
known in Rome until the time of Ju­
lius Caesar, and so costly waa the ma­
terial that even the emperor Aurelian
refused a dress of this lustrous fabric
to his empress Now It Is nurtured
In almost every country, and Its prod­
ucts are within the reach of all Be­
sides the several domesticated spo-
clea, there Is a wild silkworm found
In Central America, which weaves a
bag-llke structure two feet In depth,
that hangs from the trees. At a dis­
tance the neat reaemblea a huge mat-
led cobweb. The Insect makes no co­
coon. but weave« the silk In layers
and skeins around the Inside of the
neat
From Tegucigalpa there were
sent to England some years ago about
six pounds of this silk. There It was
made Into handkerchiefs, not easily
detected from common silk of equal
strength and delicate texture.
The Light of a Firefly.
The statement that the light of ire -
files and other phosphorescent ani­
mals Is produced without any sensible
degree of heat has often been re­
peated without any Information as to
the quantity of heat that would be
required to produce a similar amount
of heat by artificial methods. This
Information la supplied by Professor
McIntosh. He says that a tempera­
ture approaching 2,000 degrees Fahr­
enheit would be necessary to make a
light equivalent to that emitted by an
ordinary firefly. The enormous waste
ot energy In all Industrial methods of
producing light is a matter of com­
mon knowledge, and the example of
the fireny remains unimitated by man.
The very simplicity of the mechan­
ism employed by nature In phosphor­
escent animals Is baffling.
Some Notable “ Firsts. **
Postofflces were first established In
1464.
Primed musical notes were
first used In 147$. The first watches
were made at Nuremberg In 1477.
Modern needles first came Into use
In 1545. The first knives were used
In England In 1559. The first wheeled
carriages were used in France In
1559. The first newspaper was pub­
lished In England In 1588. Newspa­
per advertising began In 1652. The
first balloon ascent was made In 1781.
Glass windows were first Introduced
Into England In the eighth century.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes In 1826. The first sulphur
match was made In 1829. The first
Iron steamship waa built In 1830. The
first steel pen was made In 1830. Ship«
were first "copper-bottomed" In 1837.
Saved Bank*» Money.
An Interesting Incident of the war
In France In 1870 la recalled by the
death of M. These, which took place
lately at Bar-le-Duc. During the war
with Germany, M. These was agent
of the Bank ot Prance at Bar-le-Duc.
When the enemy was within measur­
able distance of the town he had in
hls safes $800,000. The bank’s agent’s
one Idea was to prevent this treasure
W ild Elephants In Slam.
No estimate can be made of the getting Into the hands of the enemy.
number of wild elephants in the H e packed hls seouritlee and money
jungles of Slam. In one of the ele­ In bags and succeeded. Just aa the
phant “drives" In the Aypthla district Prussians ware entering the town.
recently more than two hundred were In leaving It with hls valables by ralL
seen at on» time. These drives are The next day the whole amount waa
held yearly In the various districts of safely lodged In the vaults of the
Slam, during which great numbers of bank's branch at Lille. For thffe ac­
the animals are driven into a stock­ tion M. These received the cross o i
ade. The finest specimens are then the Legion of Honor.
captured and later tamed and trained
The First Yaeht Owner.
for domestic use. The district of Ayp­
The dictum that a woman la a t the
thla Is famous for Its drives, and the
king usually attends when large bottom ot everything appUes certain­
events fere arranged for. Permission ly to the pastime of yachting, for It
to capture wild elephants may be ob­ was Elizabeth Chudleigh, afterwards
tained from the Siamese government, Duchess of Kingston, who was the
and for each aplmal caught a royalty first private yacht owner In Great
of $160 Is paid; but such capture ts Britain. The duchess was clever as
exceedingly difficult and expensive, well aa "amazing,” and It waa fully
and the animal often dies before' It Is in keeping with her originality and
Independence of character that she
properly trained.
ahould have started the first yacht.
In doing so she set a fashion which,
Pat Man From Cincinnati.
fifty years later, had become a soci­
Bunn Helm, one of the fattest men ety craze, and has since developed
Cincinnati ever produced, was at the Into the finished and graceful sport as
ball game one afternoon when all the we understand It all over the world
seats In the grandstand were taken. today.
He took hls stand back of the last
row, presenting to those who walked
Largest Sailing Vestel.
along the passageway behind him a
Boon France w ill have the largest
vast expanse of black coat and trous­
■ailing vessel In the world. She la
ers.
to be launched next month and w ill be
After a little while Bunn was an­
called La France. She will replace aa
noyed by feeling somebody butt Into the first sailing ship of the world the
him. Looking around, he saw that he huge German seller Preussen. which
had been hit by a boy who was car­ was lost last year on the English
rying a tray full of ginger ale bottles coast The France will be 393 feat
and peanuts.
long and her beam w ill measure 6>
" 'Scuse me, sir," said the boy to fee t H er displacement will be 10,180
the Irate gtanL "1 thought you wus tons.
On her five masts w ill be
do entrance.”— Twlce-a-Month Popular spread 19,800 square feet of canvas.
Magazine.
The mammoth ship w ill aaltbetw een
European ports and New Caledonia.
Had to Draw the Lina.
*1 hear that Gwennle broke off her
engagement with Mr. Munly because
he tried to lim it her enjoymenL”
Yes.
She was engaged to twe
other young men and he objected.”
South Africa H a t 8,938,499.
The census for the Unlcu of South
Africa shows a population of all race«
of 6,938,499, of whom only 1,278,01*
are white*.
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